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New Beginnings With SHAOLIN G From UNITY TX · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: What's up everybody. My name is Jay. I've seen for
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  Speaker 1: a band called Unity t X. We're from Dallas, Texas
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be in Australia not too long from now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're excited to be there.
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  Speaker 3: Yutiful, My thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you for having me all right.
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  Speaker 3: Pleasures as you say, Yindy.
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  Speaker 4: G X will be in Australia soon for a run
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  Speaker 4: of shows alongside Gideon and Nurses for avoid of visions,
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  Speaker 4: What I'll leave behind Australian Chorle is starting in Brisbane
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  Speaker 4: on February the fourteenth, then gone through Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne,
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  Speaker 4: Adelaide and finishing in Perth on February the twenty third.
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  Speaker 3: So how you feel about.
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  Speaker 1: It, man, I'm so excited, beyond ecstatic for it, just
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  Speaker 1: being able to play with all the bands. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been a fan of Gideon ever since like twenty
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  Speaker 1: eleven and Gnoses. You know, I've always been a fan
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  Speaker 1: of real what he's done, what he's done vocally, and
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be exciting to see him finally in
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  Speaker 1: action along with what a Vision. You know, Jack and
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  Speaker 1: I have been friends for a minute and Unfortunately you
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  Speaker 1: never got to catch them in America, but it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be super sick to catch them in their you know,
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  Speaker 1: their homeland around the people who love them the most.
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  Speaker 3: Are animill just be your first trip to.
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  Speaker 2: Australia, Yes, sir, yeah, so what are what you.
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  Speaker 3: Expecting my life? Do you do your homework? You ask
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  Speaker 3: people what to expect? Or are you come in cold
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  Speaker 3: and just take things as they come.
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  Speaker 2: A little hot and cold.
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  Speaker 1: So, like I posted on my Facebook, I was like, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: seeing as I'm about to be in Australia sooner or
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  Speaker 1: anything I should be worried about.
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  Speaker 2: And then someone was like, don't put your hands where
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  Speaker 2: you can't see them.
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  Speaker 1: Another person said, uh, see if there's any outback steak steakhouses,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't even go to in America, so I
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  Speaker 1: probably won't be doing that. Other person that is from
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  Speaker 1: Australia said try out the meat pies. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: eat beef, so I won't be eating meat pies. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to think because I'm remembering so many of them,
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  Speaker 1: because they gave me a handful of things. Someone someone
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  Speaker 1: else was mentioning ice cream, but you know, these are
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  Speaker 1: like things that I don't eat, so like the food
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  Speaker 1: part I'm not quite excited about, even though someone did
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  Speaker 1: tell me try grilled kangaroo and I'm like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, maybe I should try kangaroo. I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: I said.
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  Speaker 1: I said that I was going to just if it
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  Speaker 1: was gift, if it was given to me, But like
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know what to expect, you know, holy shit,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, your response told me everything I.
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  Speaker 2: Needed to know about.
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  Speaker 3: I don't just trying to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you know the side of that.
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  Speaker 3: It was we not want to expect from you ego
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  Speaker 3: as others, So what can we expect from you to?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so you know, for me, like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be excited to be there, I might be a little
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  Speaker 1: out of control.
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  Speaker 2: I might.
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  Speaker 1: I might not like got of control. I just be
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  Speaker 1: like screaming a lot, like Robbie having a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun and stuff. Like you know, I just I just
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  Speaker 1: be like grooving, dance around a lot and stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: like we're all very chill dudes, like uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: our drummers a sweetheart. He can talk your ear off
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  Speaker 1: and talk to you about just about anything metal related.
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  Speaker 1: That man is an Encyclopedia for metal along with our basis.
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  Speaker 1: He's Encyclopedia for like post hardcord and stuff. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like if you talk to either one of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: it will be so sick. And our guitarist Brandon, he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a quiet dude, but like if you ever
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  Speaker 1: talk to him, like you'll you'll you'll crack his egg.
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  Speaker 2: He's for sure like a really nice dude.
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  Speaker 1: We're all really cool dudes, and we love everything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so if there's a conversation you're like wanting to have
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  Speaker 1: most of the time, we can like keep up with
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  Speaker 1: it and stuff. I skateboard, so like if there's anyone
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  Speaker 1: with a skateboard, like that would be my best friend.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, like I know it's it's not legal
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  Speaker 1: over there, but you know, I'm heavy marijuana smoker unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: in this case, but I shall do deal with what
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  Speaker 1: I am given, which is not illegal for anyone watching.
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  Speaker 2: We're binding by the laws. We are not getting hit
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  Speaker 2: by the border patrol.
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  Speaker 3: Border patrol. We're not even I have a border patrol
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  Speaker 3: ide yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, oh Customs, that's that's the one. Yeah, Customs. Oops,
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  Speaker 1: sorry America and me slipping yeah, I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 1: I guess your border patrol is just like the sharks
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  Speaker 1: in the water outside and.
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  Speaker 4: The crocodiles in land. So we got shocks in the
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  Speaker 4: icean crocodiles in the you fresh water?
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  Speaker 2: Oh shit, I forgot that y'all have crocodiles. Why has
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  Speaker 2: no one told me anything like that?
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  Speaker 1: Like everyone's like kangaroos, spiders, like meat pies. This that
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  Speaker 1: no one say anything about the crocodiles. It is because
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  Speaker 1: I won't be anywhere near the water.
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  Speaker 3: You should be safe by.
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  Speaker 4: Crocodiles are pretty abouch your north of Brisbane, like for
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  Speaker 4: my bad Bunderberg up, so you might we're looking through
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  Speaker 4: your schedule.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be safe from crocodiles.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's gonna be a bit of a bitter sweet
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  Speaker 4: too with voy Division calling the day. Like you mentioned
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  Speaker 4: before that you're and Jackiet good friends. But what is
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  Speaker 4: the band's relationship with voy Division? Like it's pretty special
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  Speaker 4: to be invited over for their final shure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like I've known avoid Avision for a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 1: Jackie and I have been mutuals on Instagram, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we haven't met before because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: they've been in America and I've just like missed it
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  Speaker 1: because we been on tour or something like that. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't ever recall us every meeting, so I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: and it's probably just not me being stown right now.
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  Speaker 1: Like I really really really believe that we haven't met,
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  Speaker 1: and if we have, Jack, I'm sorry, if you're watching this,
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  Speaker 1: I spoke a lot of weed.
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  Speaker 2: It's just yeah, no, they're great.
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  Speaker 1: You know, been a fan for them or a fan
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  Speaker 1: of them for years, and unfortunately I'm bummed that this
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  Speaker 1: will be the first and last time we ever get
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  Speaker 1: to like tour with them.
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  Speaker 2: But it's gonna be a sweet one.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be bittersweet, and we're just gonna make the
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  Speaker 1: most of it, considering you know, it will be our
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  Speaker 1: first tour of the year and along with Noses, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure about Gideon, but I just can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: see what they bring to the table, what we all
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  Speaker 1: bring to the table, and see how the crowd eats
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  Speaker 1: all of us up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's gonna be a blast. Man. I'm super,
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  Speaker 2: super super excited.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much more I can express that
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  Speaker 1: without sounding like an idiot, but I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here man.
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  Speaker 3: Don't do you old band a bit?
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  Speaker 4: She ex formed back in twenty forty in mates, So
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  Speaker 4: what was a musical club?
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  Speaker 3: But like that gave birth to the band, and where
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  Speaker 3: did you fit in initially?
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  Speaker 1: All right, alright, first off, I like the way you
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  Speaker 1: said fourteen you said forty, and that was real sick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's sick.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So when we first started, like it was like one
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  Speaker 1: of those things. It was like I was filling in
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  Speaker 1: for bands I played for. I played guitar for this
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  Speaker 1: death core band UH named I Am for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Those were my homies, went to high school with them
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. So it was like I was playing with
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  Speaker 1: them for a minute, and I just really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: like kind of do like some of my own stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like writing this on the.
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  Speaker 1: Side and everything, and I was just I wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: thinking of doing anything serious with it. I was just
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  Speaker 1: like I got a bunch of homies in the scene.
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  Speaker 1: We all marched to bands, and we mash hard. We
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  Speaker 1: got good style when we mosh, So I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what if we just all got on stage and just
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  Speaker 1: play music. So I like when I first started Unity,
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  Speaker 1: I bought an interface. You know, I bought like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple things to be able to record myself, and
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  Speaker 1: I just started recording demos and sing it to my
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  Speaker 1: friends and being like, you guys want to like, you
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  Speaker 1: guys want to play something like this, you want to
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  Speaker 1: start like a little project or whatever. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: like hard monshers just play music for our homies who
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  Speaker 1: also mash and like that's what it was at the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: It was just nothing but fun. We played our first show,
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  Speaker 1: it was hype.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Of course it was a kind of a treacherous sound
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  Speaker 1: because you know, we're all like hype to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but some of us are like I forgot the part.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, it's it's chaotic.
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  Speaker 1: But if you ever see our first set on YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: which honestly, if you hear this and you look it up,
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  Speaker 1: don't say anything to me about it, because it's it's insane.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most unhinged shit, the most like if that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't tell you what unity is from the beginning, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you because that said,
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  Speaker 1: I look back on it and sometimes I'm like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I did that, you know, But it's
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  Speaker 1: the energy. It's always been that. It's just been about
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  Speaker 1: the raw energy of everything. So you know, throughout the
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  Speaker 1: time since twenty fourteen, I felt like we've always carried
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  Speaker 1: that element of the band, and it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: To we finally get to bring it to you guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, here we are eleven years later.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, I started writing at the end of twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't even really count twenty thirteen. But if
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  Speaker 1: we're counting twenty thirteen, then it's like I started writing
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  Speaker 1: this stuff in like October November twenty thirteen. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just one of those things, like I say, January
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  Speaker 1: twenty whoa, what are you saying?
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  Speaker 2: That was like two days ago the first show we
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  Speaker 2: ever had, or like technically the first real show. We
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  Speaker 2: played like a.
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  Speaker 1: Secret set or something like that one time, and like
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  Speaker 1: we only got like through like a song or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, we played like our first show
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  Speaker 1: like January twenty fifth, twenty fourteen, and I completely forget
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  Speaker 1: about it every time it passes by, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: how do I even say happy anniversary to being in
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  Speaker 1: the band when I can't just post the most treacherous
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  Speaker 1: live video of us ever and just be like happy
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  Speaker 1: eleven years of being this terrible. It went hard. It
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  Speaker 1: went hard. If like all right, REALM be real. I'm
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  Speaker 1: be real one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Row.
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  Speaker 1: That set was like all right, cool. Everyone was kind
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  Speaker 1: of locked in, kind of not me. I was just
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  Speaker 1: hyped to be there. I wrote lyrics for maybe like
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  Speaker 1: one song, maybe two songs, and then I frees out
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  Speaker 1: the rest here I frees out the rest. I like
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  Speaker 1: kind of soft wrote lyrics so like a song or two,
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  Speaker 1: but like for the most part, I was just like,
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  Speaker 1: fuck it.
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  Speaker 2: It's hype. Everybody's hype. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I got my homie hopping up on stage doing backflips
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  Speaker 1: off the stage, my other friends barrel rolling on stage, crowdsurfing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like my Bassis is going crazy, he's swinging
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  Speaker 1: back on everybody while still playing bass and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's hype. It's hype. So it's just like, I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 2: this is us, And I hope that I hope that you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys fall in love with our energy, our music, and
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  Speaker 1: the element that we bring to.
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  Speaker 2: You guys vice versa.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that we get to fall in love with
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  Speaker 1: you guys too, and get to you know, come back
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  Speaker 1: and experience that, but for the first time. I hope
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  Speaker 1: it's such a insanely vibrant experience to where like I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna remember this for like, you know, months from now.
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  Speaker 1: We could do like the biggest tour of our life
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  Speaker 1: this year, but I'll be like I went to Australia
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  Speaker 1: and it was fucking badass. You know, this show was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: This show was crazy. I saw a spider over here,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a kangaroo.
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  Speaker 3: Kangaroo.
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  Speaker 1: We should just we should just get a kangaroo and
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  Speaker 1: like put them in a pit, you know, like everyone
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  Speaker 1: everyone will just you know, just have to wear helmets
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  Speaker 1: and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But like we could do it.
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  Speaker 1: I just want the most what is the most Australian
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  Speaker 1: thing for unity to experience during that set?
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  Speaker 3: A tangarod the P two B pree is But how
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  Speaker 3: don't they get anyone right to be dangerous because tangaroos
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  Speaker 3: shot clothes hell, and they will rip you literally rip
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  Speaker 3: your god.
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  Speaker 1: Siphon oh ship, Okay, yeah, maybe I should not go
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  Speaker 1: anything in there.
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  Speaker 2: Anything uh oh koala?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah?
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  Speaker 1: The people holding a koala and he has a little
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  Speaker 1: thing in his mouth because if he doesn't, he'll rip
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  Speaker 1: you apart apparently.
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  Speaker 3: Right that Vicious might actually quite dice. I heard the
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  Speaker 3: T two b the whitey guy.
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  Speaker 2: I want a Koala on stage. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: hold him while I'm singing, you know, like let him
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  Speaker 2: have his little saying to the mic.
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  Speaker 1: He can do the marsh calls for me and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I'll do my thing and stuff like
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  Speaker 1: it'll be it'll be super sick. Have you ever heard
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  Speaker 1: of Rocco's Modern Life? No, damn are there are there
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  Speaker 1: wallabies out there.
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  Speaker 3: We do have walla be here. They're like small evans,
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  Speaker 3: the kangaroos.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because that's what Rocco is.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up watching this cartoon called Rocco's Modern Life
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  Speaker 1: and it was about a wallabye that like lived in
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  Speaker 1: this It was kind of like a SpongeBob type thing.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like, I feel like if I were
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 1: A wallaby, it would have to be in Australia over
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  Speaker 1: anywhere else in America. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Done deal?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well that's a good place to leave it, Brian,
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  Speaker 4: because I gotta let you get along to your next
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  Speaker 4: person that gets.
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  Speaker 2: To have a good life with you.
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  Speaker 3: Brother.
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  Speaker 4: But in the meantime, Unity ch X take off their
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  Speaker 4: tour in Australia on Valentine's Day in Brisbane.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like it's gonna be a fun round to shut
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  Speaker 3: his brother.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for listening to me. Yeap y'all. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: you soon. Love y'all.